The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
BRIAN ENOI love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
More Brian Eno Quotes
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People always focus on people like me who use synthesizers, right, which are explicitly electronic and therefore obvious.
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So, that means you can only play either very high or very low or both. And we’re going to stay there until I take my finger down.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
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As struggles go, being an artist isn’t that much of one.
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You don’t have to act as if you know what you’re doing
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The time I like listening to music most on headphones is, I have a game I play with my brother, he’s a musician as well.And he sends me MIDI files of keyboard pieces. So, these are pieces where I just get a MIDI file.
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.
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The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That’s like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Some people are very good at being ‘stars’ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.
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It’s easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.
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I hate the way CDs just drone on for bloody hours and you stop caring.
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